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'When you did nothing wrong, how do you react?': Men arrested at Starbucks feared for their lives
Robinson said he thought about his loved ones and how the afternoon had taken such a turn as he was taken to jail. Nelson wondered if he'd make it home alive.
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Men arrested at Starbucks were there for business meeting hoping to change 'our lives’
I call BULLSHIT
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Starbucks to train workers on 'unconscious bias,' CEO says
Starbucks wants to add training for store managers on “unconscious bias,” CEO Kevin Johnson said Monday, as activists held more protests at a Philadelphia store where two black men were arrested when employees said they were trespassing. Johnson, who has called the arrests “reprehensible,” arrived in Philadelphia this weekend after video of the arrests gained traction online. He said he hopes to meet with the two men in the next couple of days and apologize to them face-to-face.
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Starbucks Apologizes After 2 Black Men Were Arrested While Waiting Inside Store
Starbucks apologized after a video of two black men being arrested while waiting in a Philadelphia Starbucks went viral. The two men were waiting inside the Starbucks location for a friend when they were asked to leave, CBS reported. The police were then called, and the two men were arrested. In a video posted to Twitter, other customers complained that two men hadn’t done anything wrong.
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Starbucks Debuts Vegan Nutella-Inspired Macchiato
The international coffeehouse launched a vegan coconut milk-based macchiato made with hazelnut syrup and a chocolate mocha drizzle. Starbucks announced two new drinks to its spring menu this week, including the vegan Hazelnut Mocha Coconutmilk Macchiato. The new beverage—which customers can order either hot or iced—is made with a blend of coconut milk and bold espresso, flavored with hazelnut syrup, and topped with a mocha drizzle for a combination reminiscent of chocolate hazelnut spread Nutella.
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Starbucks to increase wages, improve benefits for 150K employees
Starbucks said Wednesday it will increase wages and enact other perks for more than 150,000 U.S. employees as a direct result of recent tax reform, joining other corporations in rewarding workers. The Seattle-based coffee chain is giving all of its U.S.-based hourly and salaried workers an unspecified raise in April, in addition to a wage increase already dispersed earlier in the Starbucks’ fiscal year, which began last October. Starbucks says it is investing roughly $120 million in the wage increases.
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A Starbucks is coming to Yosemite National Park, but thousands want to stop it
An online petition to stop a Starbucks from being added to Yosemite National Park is rapidly gaining steam, with thousands of people supporting efforts to stop the international coffee chain from entering the protected land.
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Court of Appeals rules a transgender man's discrimination lawsuit against Starbucks can proceed
The Minnesota Court of Appeals reinstated a transgender man's discrimination lawsuit Tuesday alleging that employees at Starbucks coffee shops in Eden Prairie and Edina refused to serve him. Earlier this year, Hennepin County District Court threw out the complaint because the plaintiff, Paul Bray, 43, didn't prove the discrimination was based on his transgender status. The district court also ruled that Bray's right to sue over allegations from July 2013 had expired under the one-year statute of limitations established by the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA).
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Starbucks wi-fi made computers mine cash
Starbucks has acknowledged that visitors to one of its branches were unwittingly recruited into a crypto-currency mining operation. The wi-fi service provided by one of the coffee chain's Buenos Aires outlets surreptitiously hijacked connected computers to use their processing power to create digital cash. Starbucks said that it had taken "swift action" to address the problem.
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Starbucks Unveils $7 Wake-Up Slap
SEATTLE—Touting it as an invigorating way to jumpstart your morning, Starbucks on Friday unveiled its new $7 wake-up slap.
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Malaysia joins Indonesia in attempted Starbucks boycott
Malaysia has joined Indonesia in an attempted boycott on giant coffee chain Starbucks over its support for LGBT rights. Last week Indonesia’s second-largest Muslim organisation in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah, urged followers to boycott Starbucks. Anwar Abbas, who made the calls for the boycott, also leads the semi-governmental Indonesian Ulema Council which is responsible for Halal certification in the country.
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People are boycotting Starbucks after CEO announces plan to hire thousands of refugees
Some Starbucks customers are threatening to boycott the coffee giant after its CEO took a stand against President Donald Trump's executive order barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US. On Sunday, Starbucks announced it planned to hire 10,000 refugees worldwide in the next five years.
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Starbucks to hire 10,000 refugees across the world after Donald Trump's travel ban
Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz wrote a letter to his employees stating that he has deep concerns about Trump's ban, but a resolute promise for the refugees.
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Spokane man claims ageism after being banned from Starbucks for hitting on teen barista
A Spokane man took to Facebook after he was banned from a Spokane Starbucks. The man, who we will not identify due to the fact he has not been charged with a crime, said last week he was at Starbucks on Main Street in Downtown Spokane. He said wrote a note asking out a barista. He said she is 16 years old. He is 37 years old. “I was flirted with by a barista. For some reason she thought I was funny. Said I was funny.
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Starbucks Will Not Have to Pay Cop for Hot Coffee Spill
A jury has found that Starbucks should not be forced to pay for the medical fees and emotional suffering that a police officer claimed he allegedly endured after accidentally spilling a cup of the chain's hot coffee on his lap. The verdict was read in the North Carolina court this morning after both sides agreed that they would be willing to accept the verdict if it were reached by a majority of the jurors and not necessarily all of them, ABC News affiliate WTVD reports.
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Starbucks customers may seek damages over underfilled lattes: judge
A federal judge said two Starbucks (SBUX.O) customers may pursue a lawsuit accusing the coffee chain of cheating patrons by underfilling lattes. In a decision on Friday, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson in San Francisco said the California plaintiffs may seek damages from Starbucks Corp in their proposed nationwide class action, including for fraud and false advertising. Starbucks was accused of overcharging customers by systematically serving lattes that are 25 percent too small, based on a recipe it adopted in 2009 to save money on milk.
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Starbucks is being sued for $5m for 'putting too much ice in its iced drinks'
Starbucks is being sued for $5 million over claims it is misleading customers by putting too much ice in its iced drinks. Stacy Pincus, from Illinois, alleges the firm is falsely advertising drinks, because a cup with ice cubes in does not contain the advertised amount of liquid. Starbucks advertises all its drinks according to the size of the cup they are served in. For instance, a Grande sized drink comes in a 16 oz (454ml) cup.
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Starbucks Will Donate All of Its Unsold Food to America's Needy
Starbucks has a new plan to minimize food waste at its U.S. locations. The company says it’s teaming up with the Food Donation Connection and Feeding America in a program known as FoodShare that will allow the company to donate all of its leftover prepared meals to food banks. With this program the FDC will pick up the food each day at 7,600 Starbucks-operated U.S. locations, and Feeding America will redistribute it.
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Your Favorite Starbucks Drink Might Contain 25 Spoonfuls of Sugar
This is NOT sweet news.
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Celery Recall Due to E.Coli Outbreak Affecting Starbucks, Costco, Safeway, and More
A perennial favorite when it comes to healthy snacks, celery is in the center of a major food recall due to an E. coli scare first reported by Costco last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that the celery-onion blend in the
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